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Friday, July 6, 2012

Last Friday

Finished A Discovery of Witches. Quite good. So happy the second book in the trilogy comes out on the 10th, because I am going to buy and read and enjoy that. Yay! Started The Night Circus, though the order was a bit....out of order, so I have to resolve that. My MP3 player will play file 10 after file 1, if file 2 isn't labeled 02. Which is tricky when you are playing chapters. Also the screen went dark on my MP3 player, so I can't see what exactly is playing, so I can't skip around so easily.

Today was a work day filled with taping screens, sorting shirts, unpacking boxes, and reclaiming screens. It was a shorter work day, but this work week has had some long days. Kinda nice. Soon I'll move down and be able to pull the longer shifts more often. I was offered a Saturday shift, but I declined because I have packing to do. But yeah, once I live closer (which will be soon), I can start earlier, and stay longer because I won't be facing that long long commute.

It's nice how I'm trusted to close up shop.

The enchilada casserole cooked up nicely. We took a walk. Watched some Star Trek. A very good Friday night. Soon I shall be moved and things will change. I'll enjoy it for now though.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

a Thursday I got a hold of

Bought more food today, though I got sandwich fixings and granola bars (I always throw a couple granola bars in with my lunch, because they make the perfect thing to eat mid morning and late afternoon, much better than taking the time for one big lunch time. Space out the munchings). Yesterday I got fixings to make this enchilada casserole, as per my friend Petra's recipe. Today I prepared it. Tomorrow it shall be cooked. Hopefully it will be good. It has beans and cheese. Hard to go wrong with beans and cheese.

So I spent the night making that, and cleaning the place up a bit. Carmen & Josh return, so I want the place looking nice. Not that I did much damage, it is just nice to have things in their place once again. Ya know? Dishes done, counters wiped down.

At work was a clean up day. Cleaned some squeegees, cleaned some flood bars, broke down the press, removed tape from screens, removed ink from screens, removed emulsion from screens. BUT it was also a prep day, because now there are more screens to apply emulsion to and some screens were burned (Andrew did the burning) and taped up. Have some more to reclaim tomorrow, and some to tape up, but also some things to print! Yay!

I'm barreling through A Discovery of Witches. There was a lull in the story, but then it picked up, and now it's at a very tense part. Ohhh! So good.

By myself on a Wednesday

Today I slept in, did some dishes, got some good, cleaned the place up, watered some plants.

Generally had a relaxing time.

Also talked to ma, pa, Celia, Brynne, and Dan. That was nice.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

gone all day, but home tomorrow

Oh boy. Long day. Full of work. Full of major developments.

Gave Janet a couple checks to start the move in process. The first was the damage deposit/last months rent. The second was a part of first months rent. She said it was okay to give it to her in parts. Still waiting for the direct deposit of my paycheck to go through. It should come through today/tomorrow. We shall see.

Anyway. Yeah. Found a place to live, and have committed to living there! It is a pink house with white and blue accents. Very charming. Janet is nice, Amanda is nice. It's all so very nice.

I had another pickup to do for work. That was fun. Following that was a 11 hour work day. Though some parts I was mostly hanging back as the occasional assistant. I cleaned squeegees and floodbars. I helped register. I caught shirts. I sorted shirts. Then came a big run, and I caught that. The run took some time, so I was there till 10pm. Boss gave me tomorrow off, so I didn't mind the late day/late return. It was fun though, talking and sharing stories with the boss as we worked through and past the sun set. Starting to find my place here at work, I feel.

I can't wait to not have to drive so long. Ten minute commute, here I come!

A Discovery of Witches continues to be awesome.

Did I mention I have tomorrow off? I have errands to run. I'm also looking forward to relaxing, just because only having a couple hours in the evening isn't enough. Gotta get stuff done!

Monday, July 2, 2012

arms of steel (eventually)

Arrived at work at the very reasonable hour of noon. I like having a flexible job. I'm not so keen on the lack of cell service, because it makes communication really difficult when I need to communicate. I still haven't given Janet a check to start the moving in process. I never know quite when I am finishing the day, and I can't give her a heads up. But she is really understanding about it, and we both know I'll eventually give her money and move in.

Today I cleaned screens. Removed the tape, scraped the ink, removed the ink with chemicals, and then removed the emulsion with chemicals, and then removed the ghost image with MORE chemicals. AND AND AND I got the pressure washer to start using my own strength. Girl power! When it puttered into power, I felt so self confident. The Spencer in me is really coming out. Whee!

Left at 6:30ish. Went home. Watered plants. Now I'm waiting on some rice in the cooker. Hopefully it cooks. Carmen and Josh have a really confusing rice cooker. I'm going to make an enchilada casserole one of these nights. Got the recipe from Petra.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

sunday shift spectacular

Awww oh god. I just got out of bed to put my chip dip away in the fridge, and walking hurt soooo much. I spent all day on my feet. A ten hour shift. Ohhh it's done my legs in! Thankfully, because I have a cool boss, I have a late start tomorrow. Get to sleep in a bit (just a bit, but a little goes a long way).

Another way my boss is cool: he got us pizza! Yay!

Got to work at 10:30. Left at 8:30. I removed the tape from a couple screens and scraped the ink off. Flipped some of the sweatshirts. We worked pretty efficiently today. Brock loaded the sweatshirts. I stacked them. Chris got the unprinted shirts onto the trolleys. And the day just flew by! Got the fronts, and the backs. Stuffed them into boxes as they came out of the heater. Well not stuffed! I folded and put them in the boxes. Just a few days they came out of the boxes, now they are back in and all spiffy like. Whooo! It moves so fast in the studio.

And now I'm so tired. Watching Happy Texas on Netflix Instant.

I also started listening to A Discovery of Witches. IT IS SO GOOD! Mom, read it! It's so so good. Well, I'm only ten chapters in. But they've been really good chapters.

Oh, also didn't get my check in for the apartment as it was too late when I got out of work. Tomorrow. I'll do that tomorrow.